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Is it just me, or has DDG been having trouble often lately? Or is it just a combination with some outage + degradation of search results lately that makes me g! regularly these days? Didn't use to need that.
I guess it impacts the other engines that are based on it.
That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits. Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1] 1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar 2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh 3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true val…
https://github.com/jusw85/mozlz4
https://github.com/informatikr/aeson-pretty
To be fair you can also just right click on the URL bar when on a page that advertises having a search and click Add . Or if you want to search by keyword you can right click on most search boxes and click "add a keyword for this search". Mycroft Project has a bunch of random search engines ready to add to Firefox (via right clicking on the URL bar when on the search entry page):
If you use more than one search engine, I like the Right Click Search addon to be able to search highlighted text with multiple engines easily (unfortunately not monitored by Mozilla but you can look over the code before installing and turn off updates since it is quite simple and requires no permissions):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click- search/
The most privacy friendly way to search is to search the site you want to end up on when you know what site that is and they have a usable search.
For general search engines, I suggest giving Metager a try, it is a non-profit metasearch.
That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits. Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1] 1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar 2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh 3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true val…
Neat, I kept thinking there should be a way to add keywords to that list and now I know how to do it (execept for some reason you can only add a new engine with a keyword there and not add a keyword to an existing engine :( ). I use mozlz4 and aeson-pretty to look at the search.json.mozlz4 file. https://github.com/jusw85/mozlz4 https://github.com/informatikr/aeson-pretty To be fair you can also just right click on th…
Cool, might as well give it a go while Ecosia is down. Thanks.
DuckDuckGo also is unable to provide search results, which seems to confirm they use Bing as a base for their searches.